city hall doesn't care what we have to say. >>reporter: city council member is a former san jose police officer who also retired open disability. he and the councilman majority supported mayor reid fiscal reform policy including pay cut an voter approved pension rae form. >> it's really not about the city or the mayor and the council versus the union. what it's about is keeping our city afloat. dealing with a budget situation that has just been disaster for over a decade and saying what are we going to do to fix it. >>reporter: police officers say the fix it self is a disaster and the only thing the 2 sides can seem to agree on is the staffing shortage here is real. the department is authorized to have more than the 1700 current officers. 44 new recruit in the pipeline but 81 says if you add up the people who have left or planned to leave since academy started, total of 53, it's a numbers game the department can't we know. >> they are walking out. don't have it any other way. can't strike. can't do job action. the only way real